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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2020

This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk

All content on this site has draft status, subject to confirmation by both group project coordinators and project clients. There is no guarantee that these projects will be offered to students, either in the form described here, or at all.

Intellectual property

Notes on Intellectual property

Client briefing

Information on Logistics for Clients

Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects

Information for Directors of Studies

Information for the Coordinators

Management timetable for 2020

Master timetable for the course (which should be consistent with front page of the briefing booklet) is available from here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html

Work in progress - expressions of interest for 2021

• Saaras Mehan, on behalf of Azure Sphere team at Microsoft in Cambridge
• Michael Malley, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children / Medecins Sans Frontieres
• Sara Turkentine <sara@gearset.com>
• Alex Healing, BT <alex.healing@bt.com>
• Ideaspace
• NHS Digital
• Doug Macfarlane/Emma Salgard Cunha
• Dora Musci <mdora@amazon.co.uk>, Chris Power <chrpw@amazon.co.uk>, Amazon (London)

Work in progress - design briefs for 2021

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2021, we estimate there will be 130 students, so about 22 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 24 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Projects offered in 2020

1. Accessibility Assessor
2. Activity Analysis from Smart Meter Data
3. Automatic Assessment of R Code
4. Automating Crop Canopy Data Collection for Crop Management
5. Azure Sphere for Citizen Science
6. Collecting Farm-sourced Data on Pest and Disease Pressure
7. Ecosystem Game
8. Electronically Cataloguing Butterflies
9. Ethical Surgery Assistant
10. Feeding Body and Mind
11. Green Eyes
12. Live Lecture Comprehension
13. Online Ticking Markbook
14. Planning Tools for Large Scale Location Tracking
15. Probably Helpful Planning
16. Remote Animal Recovery Monitoring
17. Robot Backgammon Arm
18. Robotic Warehouse Design Suite
19. Supervisor Matching System
20. Support Sustainable Wildlife Trade
21. Testing a Logical Query Language
22. Trading Assistant
23. Travelling Businesswoman Problem
24. Workout Help with Android and WearOS

Potential clients for 2020

Proposal in development

• Frontier
• Fair Finance

Proposal sought

• Cambridge Mathematics

• Hamilton Kerr Institute

• Oodle

• Thales

• JP Morgan

• Sainsbury Laboratory

• Autodesk

• Centre for Global Equality

• Collusion

• Proposed new mechanism: Self-selected project

Previous ideas that have not been used

• Calendar Dialogue - Amazon

• Auto-Emoji

• Archaeological databases

• The Headless Bicycle

• Emo Face

• Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier

• Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier

• City generation - Frontier

Potential clients that did not proceed

2020

• Argon Design

2019

• Smart Cambridge

• Mindi

• Fauna and Flora International

• Fusepump

• Investre

• Netcraft

2018

• Sparx

• Cambridge Consultants

• Capita

• Nominet Trust

• University Information Services

• Microsoft proposing Sport England application

2017

• BT

• Palantir

• Elm Partners

• Lucid / Cycorp

• Microsoft Research

2016

• Care Quality Commission

• King Digital Entertainment

• The Fusion Works

2015

• Thales

• Steve Wade

• Cambridge Humanitarian Centre

2014

• Broadcom

• last.fm

• Rangespan

• John McMillan

• Atheon

• OpenMarket

• Google

• Repindex

2013

• Netcraft

• Neul.com

• Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division

• Palantir Technologies

• Privacy International

Archived records of previous years

2019

• Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
• 2019 list of design briefs
• 2019 - final list of clients

2018

• Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
• 2018 list of design briefs
• 2018 - final list of clients

2017

• Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
• 2017 list of design briefs
• 2017 - final list of clients

2016

• Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
• Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcEQE4FigU&list=PLstyePOvf2d2QbiVFI4naska1n4G0fhSW
• 2016 list of design briefs
• 2016 - final list of clients

2015

• Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
• Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0cPplAB3DxHoaJC6hTYomP
• 2015 list of design briefs
• 2015 - final list of clients

2014

• Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
• Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d2A3vWW4DkEGIAUIm4T0fg6
• 2014 - final list of design briefs
• 2014 - final list of clients

2013

• Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
• Video of presentations: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1435486
• 2013 - final list of design briefs
• 2013 - final list of clients

Selected design briefs from earlier years

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2006

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

Projects offered in 2019 not assigned to groups

• Flyathlon

• Robot Death Watch

• Visual Pick and Place

Projects offered in 2018 not assigned to groups

• Citizen Speed Safety

• Every Car in Cambridge

Projects offered in 2017 not assigned to groups

• Energy with Social Conscience

• Science for AD2500

• Surgery in the Cloud

Projects offered in 2016 not assigned to groups

• Pocket Brain Surgeon

• Reducing food waste with IoT

• The Busking Bus-Stop

• Safer Chicken from Farm to Fork

Projects offered in 2015 not assigned to groups

• Reinfection Monitor

• Online Identity for the Base of the Pyramid

• Audio Websites on Smartphones

Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups

• Locally Augmented Retail

• Set Builder

• Employability Coach

• Dance Practice Assistant

• History Scraper

Projects offered in 2013 not assigned to groups

• Touch screen prototyping at school

• Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency

• The Poet Laureate's web thresholds

• Countryside web server

• Science exhibit interaction adviser

• Personal status server